Word: telegrapher
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Twenty Powers. The 20 sections of the bill would empower the President to set up Government corporations, install priorities and allocations for industrial materials, seize factories, suspend antitrust laws (to facilitate production pools), freeze wages and prices, set up job controls and provide for censorship of communications (telephone, telegraph and the mail, but not U.S. publications). It would also broaden Selective Service to require registration of all males between 18 and 46 and put a clamp on excess profits...
...Washington, the Federal Communications Commission authorized the American Telephone & Telegraph Co. to link the east and west coasts with the first transcontinental TV circuit. In addition to the coaxial cable, A.T. & T. will build 55 microwave relay stations between Omaha and San Francisco. Until the $37 million circuit is completed in 1952, east and west will see each other's programs only on milky TV recordings...
...Directions has done it at last-by halves. The Green Huntsman, Book One of the novel, is now issued in a good translation by Louise Varese; Book Two, The Telegraph, is scheduled for this fall...
...Gifford's duty to telegraph to the port side the same rhythm which stroke McCagg sets for the entire shell on the starboard side. This he has done very well, partly because, after rowing behind McCagg all last year, he now apes him so excellently that he even imitates his mistakes...
Last week, a Cumberland County grand jury indicted Frake and the Western Union Telegraph Co. on bookmaking charges. It also indicted four St. Louisans on charges of operating a nationwide horse-bet syndicate. Same day, Missouri highway patrolmen swarmed into the syndicate's innocent-looking office in a St. Louis suburb. Called the "Gold Bronzing Co.," it purported to be busy gilding keepsake baby shoes. The cops found no baby shoes, but a gold mine of records, ledgers and racing form sheets...